{"id":9436,"date":"2025-05-20T19:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doge-sought-access-to-government-publishing-office\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:05:32","slug":"doge-sought-access-to-government-publishing-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/doge-sought-access-to-government-publishing-office\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE sought access to Government Publishing Office"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency initiative sought last week to gain access to the government\u2019s central publishing operation, a congressional offshoot that provides public access to federal documents.<\/p>\n

The Government Publishing Office is the fourth legislative branch agency that President Donald Trump\u2019s administration has recently attempted to access. DOGE made an inquiry about placing a cost-cutting team at GPO, and leadership of the legislative branch agency declined, according to two people on Capitol Hill with oversight responsibility for the agency.<\/p>\n

The GPO prints official documents and provides digital access to publications across the legislative, executive and judicial branches. While it services all three branches of government, the GPO is overseen by Congress and funded alongside other congressional support agencies.<\/p>\n

A GPO spokesperson declined to comment.<\/p>\n

GPO Director Hugh Halpern testified last month to House and Senate spending subcommittees that the agency\u2019s head count is currently 1,644 \u2014 down from 2,284 in fiscal 2010 when its budget was 8.2 percent higher.<\/p>\n

Last week DOGE made attempts to place a downsizing team at the Government Accountability Office<\/u><\/a>, a congressional watchdog that roots out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government, and the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights<\/u><\/a>, which fields and manages complaints about discrimination, harassment, accessibility and other workplace issues. Both legislative-branch agencies declined access to DOGE teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody has been saying \u2018get lost,\u2019\u201d Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.), the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee, said of legislative branch agencies who have been approached by DOGE. \u201cAs they should \u2014 they have no business.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House also launched a purge of officials at the Library of Congress, including Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and the head of the copyright office two weeks ago and attempted to install hand-picked replacements<\/u><\/a> from within Trump\u2019s Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency initiative sought last week to gain access to the government\u2019s central publishing operation, a congressional offshoot that provides public access to federal documents. The Government Publishing Office is the fourth legislative branch agency that President Donald Trump\u2019s administration has recently attempted to access. DOGE made an inquiry about placing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}